Collar holder or retainer.



A. L. A. BIDDELOO. COLLAR HOLDER OR RETAINER.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT-15, 1909.

Patented Sept. 27, 1910.

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COLLAR HOLDER OR RETAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 27, 1910.

Application filed September 15, 1909. Serial No. 517,828.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUoUsrn Louis A. BIDDnLoo, manufacturer, public of France, residing at 52 Avenue de Clichy, Paris, in the Department of the Seine and Republic of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Collar Holders or Retainers for Neckties, Bows, Scarfs, or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object an improved holder or retainer particularly for use with double collars for the purpose of facilitating the tying of hand tied ties in such a manner that all forms of sailor knots, bows, scarfs and the like may readily be formed.

The improvements mainly consist inde endently of the general construction of the tie holder in providing it with an attachment at the back in such a manner as to hold it in place in the collar and also with pivoted ends which may be disengaged from the collar and enable the tie to be arranged in place or changed without unbuttoning the collar and without risk of creasing or dirtying the points.

The accompanying drawing illustrates by way of example an embodiment of the tie holder which forms the subject matter of the present invention.

Figure 1 shows the device in perspective. Fig. 2 is a partial horizontal section on the line A-A in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents the tie holder engaged in a collar.

The device broadly consists of a thin flexible strip 1, the height and length of which correspond with the dimensions of the collar in connection with which it is to be used. This strip 1 may be of any appropriate material such for example as celluloid or steel and at its rear middle part it is perforated at 2 for the reception of the stud 3 by which the collar the shirt (see Fig. 3). The extremities of the strip 1 are connected with the pivoted parts 4 and 5 which are rotatable about pivots 6 and 7, and carry the runners 8 and 9 through which the ends of the tie are passed, said runners being fixed in any appropriate manner; in the construction illustrated the ends 4: and 5 are bent back in such a manner as to embrace one of the uprights of the runners 8 and 9, and are stuck, soldered or preferably riveted to the a citizen of the Reis attached to.

parts t and 5 by means of eyelets 10 (see Figs. 1 and 2).

As shown in Fig. 3 the tie holder is engaged between the two thicknesses or folds ofthe collar and its length should be such that the runners 8 and 9 terminate in immediate proximity to the points of the collar such that these runners come close together. The ends of the tie having first of all been engaged in the runners S and 9 the collar is closed by means of its front stud 11 in the usual manner, and the tie is then tied in the desired manner. This operation is exceedingly easy because it is only necessary to slide the tie in one direction or the other without this sliding being rendered difficult by friction as is the case when the tie is engaged in the collar itself.

The above constitutes the essential feature of the improved device and by means of same renders it possible to tie the tie, to change it or re-form it, without unbuttoning the collar. In order to do these things it is only necessary to free the ends 4 and 5 from the collar as shown in broken lines in Fig. 1 by turning them around their pivots 6 and 7 then to cit-her arrange, re-arrange or remove the tie, after which the movable parts 4: and 5 are again turned back into e11- gagement with the collar and finally the knot is tied. This operation is therefore effected without difficulty or trouble and without dirtying or creasing the collar.

It will be noted that a device of this kind enables considerable economy to be effected in the cost of the tie because the length passing round the neck can be dispensed with.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is In a holder for neck-ties, the combination with a neck band, of two end pieces each pivoted to said band and movable thereon and in respect thereto, the pivotal axis being at a right angle to the material of the band, each of said pivoted end pieces being supplied with an open loop at its outer extremity, substantially as and for the purposes explained.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

AUGUSTE LOUIS A. BIDDELOO.

I/Vitnesses:

DEAN B. MASON, ROBERT EURPIN. 

